Goals

• get hot FTL pages working again (fast turnaround on ftp page revisions)
  • eclipse: need to add resources dir containing FTL to build path and set preferFileSystemAccess to true. run mvn war:war in application
• convert client savings account creation area to Spring/FTL
  • service facades in place so all data/behaviour should be available, if not we will need to tweak and happy to help/collaborate on this with stanley/whoever.
  • (Reached from Clients&Accounts tab, Create Savings account link on left side)
  • Create Pages:
    • Create Savings Account - Select a customer;
    • Create Savings account - Enter Savings account information (2 pages) ;
    • Create Savings account - Preview Savings account information
    • Edit Savings account information button from preview page
  • testing
    • unit tests (in memory) for Spring controllers (for significant functionality)
    • UI level acceptance tests - functional UI test in place - CreateSavingsAccountTest
    • schedule manual walk through of CSS with PM/QA/Dev.
    • manual UI test by QA on multiple browsers
  • use and document FTL templates
  • use and document code patterns
  • identify addition templates/patterns that are needed to accelerate work
• identify whatever ways we can to accelerate Spring/FTL conversion
• re-estimate total effort for conversion accross mifos based on single conversion from spike
• faster testing?
  • Create API for createSavingsAccount - different spike assigned to Kojo:
  • functional UI test in place - CreateSavingsAccountTest - any rework involved with that test due to spike?

Stories

• document eclipse FTL configuration for hot FTL pages
• Proposal - One timeboxed story on FTL spike - MIFOS-4409
• Measure speed of migration of another area of Mifos. Compare established baseline (12 or so data points of historical LOC counts from git) with these new measurements.

Measuring our speed improvements

"Speed of migration" will be rate of change of LOC of select source files (.jsp, *Action.java, *Controller.java, etc.) - comparing only jsp to jsp, ftl to ftl etc., over time (since we might expect, for instance, less LOC in ftl than jsp).

More potential dev tasks

• technical improvements
  • enable instant reloading of Freemarker templates
    • (Stanley was saying he was able to hook it up to WTP and hot
      deployments?)
    • Michael Vorburger is also working on dev setup improvements, which
      includes the promise of instant FTL reloads
    • have early UI walkthrough on dev box with PM and QA
  • use JRebel
  • spend time summarizing and adding transparency to off-list work by
    Stanley Kwok & Michael Vorburger
  • could we use Spring Roo on top of Services/ServiceFacades?
  • better templates
    • reusable css pieces (use Compass?)
    • reusable ftl widgets
• measuring/managing the effort
  • as a control to measure against: estimate of how fast it's been going
    in the past e.g. Product Mix page took x days and had 23 bugs logged on
    new implementation
  • measures: what is the time required to build new FTL; how many bugs
    found by QA during manual testing; number of automated tests and time
    to write new automated tests
  • may need to measure twice - once on first try where we have trial
    and error, then second time with better defined
  • show how are new ideas are speeding up the process
• team for sprint
  • multiple devs
  • fast feedback: tight integration w/testers
    • some testing happening every day
• QA effort includes
  • new acceptance test for page (or fix/improve old test)
  • manual test pass to see if any bugs can be found in new FTL
  • seperate but associated spike on building API test for create Savings
    account
• logistical/infrastructure improvements
  • make sure all devs have fast hardware / fast internet

Spring Web flow examples in application

• user.xml (not yet brought into application)
• createQuestion.xml